Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came . |
| 2 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 3 | She was pulled upwards with startling velocity , the sensation of flying through the air causing the world to tilt so precariously that she found herself clinging to fitzAlan like a drowning woman . |
| 4 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 5 | Every time she tried to move he squeezed his grip and she felt herself begin to black out . |
| 6 | He smiled thinly , looking pointedly at her hand , and she let it drop to her side . |
| 7 | Alain had rescued her as if he cared what became of her , and she supposed he had to , anyway ; she was , as he had said , his responsibility . |
| 8 | ‘ A bit , ’ she said , and she watched him walk to the end of the bed . |
| 9 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 10 | And then his need called out an answering desire within her , and she found herself clinging to him with a desperation that matched his own . |
| 11 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 12 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 13 | Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed . |
| 14 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was an impossible position , ’ one of them pointed out , ‘ and very stifling because she felt you had to be part of the greater family and do everything with them . |
| 16 | But she quit , left home because she thought she had to . |
| 17 | While she spoke he got to his feet , turned away from her , and strolled briskly across the room to straighten a shelf of magazines . |
| 18 | Before she left she turned to Moore and said , ‘ I do hope you will be all right , sir . |
| 19 | She must wait until after his seduction before she made herself known to him . |
| 20 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 21 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 22 | Poor Prince was seriously hurt , and as she watched he fell to the ground . |